Advanced Color Photography Assignment 1
So I've been working on an assignment for my Advanced Color Photo class. The description of this assignment couldn't be much more vague or difficult for me. The teacher's description of the assignment is that he wants 10 prints using color that gives the illusion of space (or lack of space) or three demensionality. This teacher has been teaching for 21 years and is actually a known and published photographer, so he must know what he's doing. However, this assignment just seemed so vague to me that I had trouble completing it. I just had no idea what he wanted, so I was left to my own devices.
I shot the assignment using my Mamiya 645 S100 Medium Format camera (aka "My Precious") but mostly my Nikon N70 and Kodak Portra 160 and 400 NC (natural color) professional color film. Have a look for yourself and let me know what you think.
Now that you've decided what you think about my pictures, let me tell you what the teacher thought. First of all he said that the pictures of the flowers don't do anything for him. Ok that's fine, I don't necessarily like pictures of flowers but somebody (my wife) wanted me to take that picture and I thought it would fit the assignment. He liked 4 of my pictures although did not like that they were digitally printed. The four he liked are: the one of the red sculpture in Chicago, Lincoln sitting on a bench in Niles, IL, Superdawg Hotdog stand and one not pictured here. A few of the other pictures he called "pretentious". I think I'm just going to have to shoot things that he likes for his class...
-Joe
The Latent Image
I shot the assignment using my Mamiya 645 S100 Medium Format camera (aka "My Precious") but mostly my Nikon N70 and Kodak Portra 160 and 400 NC (natural color) professional color film. Have a look for yourself and let me know what you think.
Now that you've decided what you think about my pictures, let me tell you what the teacher thought. First of all he said that the pictures of the flowers don't do anything for him. Ok that's fine, I don't necessarily like pictures of flowers but somebody (my wife) wanted me to take that picture and I thought it would fit the assignment. He liked 4 of my pictures although did not like that they were digitally printed. The four he liked are: the one of the red sculpture in Chicago, Lincoln sitting on a bench in Niles, IL, Superdawg Hotdog stand and one not pictured here. A few of the other pictures he called "pretentious". I think I'm just going to have to shoot things that he likes for his class...
-Joe
The Latent Image
posted by latentimage at 8:31 PM
6 Comments:
Professors. Man, it's a wonder anyone escapes academia with anything of their own convictions left intact. I think your photos are great, thanks for posting them!
Kurt Johnson
Nice job Joe! I love the variety of photos you picked for the project, (especially the ones we did, hehe) but they are all great!
Once again the Latent One delivers another fine photo project!
I'm somewhat shocked that he didn't like the flowers and said that it didn't do anything for him. After being a photographer for so long you think he'd easily be able to appreciate it, maybe he's just becoming a jaded old fart, give him a shot of a piece of cat crap and ask him if that will do anything for him. lol
Pretentious? How is that even applied to photography? Ugh, art professors man...it's like the photography vrother of TANTA. Har har, anyways I like the photos, they turned out great Joe, keep up the good work.
~Rick
Some of your pictures are more interesting than others, but the real issue is how defensive you are. May I assume that you have paid money to learn something? Let it occur to you that the professor just might know more than you do and that you may still have something to learn. The assignment is not vague and the real question is why you don't know that some colors advance and some recede and therefore color can be used to either create the illusion of space or to create spacial ambiguity...
sounds like that anonymous comment made at 4 something PM could have been from your angry professor in disguise, haha.
honestly, i was a photography student for 4 yrs, and I now teach photography, and I would never assign something like that. vague central! if it's advanced photography you should be concentrating on your own series of ideas and exploring/exploiting subjects interesting TO YOU.
you have a good eye, but I must agree, although the photo of the flower is technically fine, its just not that interesting. maybe your professor just meant that its such an exhausted subject (i mean how many photographs of flowers are there in the world! think about how many you see just in a beginning photo class alone) that it comes off as cliché, and basically not that interesting. its a snooze compared to the rest, thats all.
one photo doesn't determine what kind of photographer you are though. Critiques are just feedback, you have to sift through it and see what's constructive for your work.
keep up the good photographin'!
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